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How many American workers moonlight?

September 7th, 2009, 3:00 am · 7 Comments · posted by Mary Ann Milbourn

moonlight1Americans who are still working are laboring harder than ever this Labor Day.

Many are not only working one job, but have taken on a second just to get by.

Here are some facts on moonlighting collected by the U.S. Census Bureau:

  • Workers who hold down more than one job: 7.7 million
  • Workers who have one full-time and one part-time job:  4 million
  • Workers who have two full-time jobs:  288,000

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 7 Comments

  • sbristowreader says:
    September 7, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    Marry rich? I just want to get married, period. I am 24 and panicking-I'm not even engaged!!

  • Amy says:
    September 7, 2009 at 9:24 pm

    Obama is so bad for this country. Look at his advisors, especially van jones. Is anyone really happy with him now besides hard core liberals?

  • ocwriter says:
    September 7, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    I'm a freelance writer. I've been doing fine and taking on new clients and publications, but I recently took a full-time, non-challenging job. This is just to bring in some steady income because I expect my husband to get laid off. He has a year to go until he finishes his accounting degree and hopefully then he can get a much better job. Until then, we're hanging in there.

  • Jrod says:
    September 7, 2009 at 10:42 pm

    Bush was worse. Obama gets to clean up the mess that the conservatives made and they're going to do everything they can to mess it up.

  • Damon Tordini says:
    September 8, 2009 at 12:08 am

    Seriously - it's 8 months into the presidency. What exactly were you expecting at this point? For the recession to be completely reversed and the housing bubble to be reinstated? The S&P 500 is up 30% since he took office, but you're too busy trying to blame the recession on the guy that took office 1 year after it started.

  • Marcy says:
    September 13, 2009 at 9:25 am

    I can't fathom anyone blaming Obama for the mess this country is in. Obama bad for this country! What? and our alternative would have been better!? Talk about problems! Our country diverted a major train wreck in the last election. I'm amazed that Obama has been able to accomplish anything thus far with nay sayers, opposition to change and the millions of people like Amy with IQs that are below average being so prominent in this country.
    "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times" figure out which perspective you want to see this from and enjoy the vantage point.

  • pop says:
    November 1, 2009 at 9:39 am

    It's not Obama. It's all the politicians in general. The ones that clearly see a good idea, but disagree with it because the idea was from the opposing party. And nothing gets fixed.